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The Foreign Secretary has warned the EU that it will stir Britain's “Dunkirk spirit” if it tries to force a bad Brexit deal on Prime Minister Theresa May.

Jeremy Hunt's warning at the Conservative Party Conference came after he compared the EU to the Soviet Union. He said that if the bloc becomes a "prison" and punishes Britain for Brexit other countries will "want to escape."

Mr Hunt also invoked Margaret Thatcher as he told EU leaders that if they want to break up the UK by putting a border in the Irish Sea the answer is “No, no, no.”

In an interview with The Telegraph after his speech, Mr Hunt said the EU was “over-confident” about Britain’s willingness to compromise, adding that if Europe...